In the last few movies, we have focused on the layout of the walls for ourtwo bedroom condo unit.The next logical thing to do is to layout the doors and windows.So here I have a file called Doors and Windows and it's a completed version ofthe wall layout, and we're going to look at the various ways that we can adddoors and windows to this layout.So let's start with the doors and here on the Architecture tab, I'm going toclick on the Door tool, and that's going to take me to the Modify/PlaceDoorribbon tab, and on the Properties palette, I'll see settings for the doors that I'm placing.

Now the first thing I want to look at is the Type Selector, and if I open up thelist here you can see at the top, that I have a single family in this projectcalled Single-Flush and it contains several types.Now the default type is 36x84 and I'm going to choose the 36x80 type instead.That's really the only change that I want to make here. If I move my mouse intothe screen what you're going to see is the tip tells me that I need to click ona wall to place the door and it's confirming that or reinforcing that by thesmall circle with a line through it, this sort of can't place here symbol, andwhat you'll see is, as you move your mouse around, the door will only appear ifyour cursor happens to be on a wall.

So with that in mind, you need to pay attention to whether or not there's a wallunder your cursor. Other than that it should be pretty easy to place doors.Now I'm going to start with the main entrance to the condo unit, right over hereon this small angled wall, and if you move slightly, what you'll see is somesnapping behavior that we talked about earlier in this chapter.The door will try to find the center of this wall.So it's trying to do that automatically, you don't necessarily have to read thefractions directly to see that, you can kind of tell that it's finding thecenter of this wall.

So as soon as it finds the center, all I have to do is click and it will place that door.Now if I want to continue placing 36x80 doors, I can just continue to movearound my plan and find other locations, and again, this one will snap nicely tothe center and this one will also snap to the center, but notice that it'sflipping the wrong way.It's swinging opposite of what I might like.It'll be a little difficult to get into this room if the door was swingingto the left like this.

So notice, as you move the mouse, it can swing in or out of the room, but to getit to swing left or right, what you actually have to do is just tap yourspacebar, and that will swing it either left or right.So I'm going to click it to place it right there and I'll place another one overhere, again, I can tap my spacebar.Notice that this time, we're getting a six-inch dimension there off the end wall.If you recall the movie on Snaps, we talked about the default snapping behavior.

That was not limited to just walls, so you can use that to your advantage herewith doors as well to maintain standard size jamb.So I can get a six-inch jamb there or a six-inch jamb over here or reallyanywhere that I want to see that.So I'm going to continue to place these, some of these in the center, some ofthem with a six-inch jamb like so.That's all of the single swing doors that I need, but I need to add a few more doors.I have some closets that require bifold doors and I have a patio down in theliving room at the bottom of the plan, that I want to put in a nice double door.

So I don't have those door families currently loaded in this project, as you cansee all I have is single flush.So what we're going to do is remain in the Door command and over here on theribbon, we can choose this Load Family button, and I'll click it, and that willbring up the Load Family dialog, and I am in the out of the box standard USImperial library. Your screen might look slightly different, but you shouldhave a Doors folder, and if you open that up, there are several doors that ship with the software.

Now the easiest way to tell what's here is to click the first item and then usethe arrow on your keyboard to slowly page through all the available doors thatare included here and you'll see the Previews changing over on the right.So you can see there's quite a few varieties for us to choose from.Now what I'm going to choose here is my Bifold-2 panel door at the top, holddown my Ctrl key and select the Bifold-4 panel door, and then the Double-Glass 2,Double-Glass 2 has these muntin patterns on the glass.

So I'm going to select all three of those, click Open, it will load those threefamilies into my project, and then if we look at our Type selector, we now havethose families and their types available to us.So there are several sizes of each of these families included in the file now.So I'm going to choose the 68x80 Double-Glass door, and I'm going to put onecentered down here in the outside of the living room to get out to our patio.

I'm going to change to the Double bifold door, and I'll do a 72x80, and I'mgoing to put that one right here on this closet, and then I'll switch to thesingle bifold door and I'm just going to do a 30x80 in this case, and I'mgoing to place one here, and I'm going to place one here, and one right here.Now I did those a little bit sloppy on purpose and in particular I'm going tozoom in on this closet right here and show you that, the way that came in it'skind of right up against this wall here, it's also flipping the wrong way.

So don't feel like you have the undo and start over again when situations likethis occur, all you have to do is select it and it's got its own flip grips andyou can flip it and it's got temporary dimensions, and I'm just going to makethat 1 inch so that it gives me a small 1 inch jamb on either side.So things like that are very easy to fix after you place them, using the samemethods that we use with walls before.Temporary dimensions and flip grips.So as a final touch for this plan, I'm going to go to the Window tool, if youscan the ribbon tabs and the Properties palette, it looks always exactly thesame as placing doors. We have a Type selector here, we have choices on thislist, we have a lot of the same choices over here, what you'll notice here onthe list is all I have is a fixed window, which may not be the best choice fora condominium plan.

So just like we were able to do with doors, I'm going to choose Load Family,scroll down to my Windows folder, and choose a more appropriate type window.In this case, I'm going to choose a Casement Dbl with Trim, open it up, pick mydesired size, there is a few different choices available I'll use a 48x48 andI'll place one in each of the rooms that need a window.Click the Modify tool and that takes care of our door and window placement.

So placing doors and windows is a simple matter of choosing the tool andclicking on the wall where you want it to go, remember that you have temporarydimensions to fine-tune their placement.So if you don't have the family or type that you're looking for in your project,you simply click the Load Family tool, go out to your library on the hard drive,choose the one you want, load it in and place it in your project.

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Find out how to create compelling architectural designs using the modeling tools in Autodesk Revit software. In this course, author Paul F. Aubin demonstrates the entire building information modeling (BIM) workflow, from creating the design model to publishing a completed project. The course also covers navigating the Revit interface; modeling basic building features such as walls, doors, and windows; working with sketch-based components such as roofs and stairs; annotating designs with dimensions and callouts; and plotting and exporting your drawings.